My body.
To get out
The presence of my bodily suffering,
The menacing,
Never tiring
Presence
Of my
Body.
Antonin Artraud: The Question Arises
4.48 / Ohne Titel is inspired by the British playwright Sarah Kane’s final work “4.48 Psychosis”. The piece approaches the experience of psychological collapse within varied mental states. Body language is applied to the manifestation of concepts inherent to the text: the fear of psychological breakdown, medication-induced suffering, and the inability to distinguish reality from imagination.
4.48/ Ohne Titel’s spoken text is a collage of quotations from several poems whose subjects regard manic depression, grief or loss. The collage gives a sprit to a new story.
Collected text by:
Antonin Artaud: Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Inge MĂĽller: Wer gibt dir ein Recht, den Stummen zu spielen
Marx Augustin: Oh du lieber Augustin
Virginia Woolf: Sketch of the Past
Virginia Woolf: Suicide Note
Iris Bolton: My Son
Anne Sexton: Almost Terrible Energy
Edgar Allan Poe: Letter to Annie L. Richmond/November 16, 1848
Quotation by Elizabeth Jennings
Sylvia Plath: Bell Jar
Franz Kafka: Diaries, 1913
Pantera: Suicide Note I, II
Randall Jarrell: The Woman at the Washington Zoo
John Donne: Letter of John Donne
Kay Redfield Jamison: Night Falls Fast
Amiri Baraka: Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
PRESS REVIEW
Shang-Chi Sun’s way of showing the beauty of Asian bodies, which was something rare to be seen after Sankai Juku. “His body is slender and refined. He can fully express the aesthetic perceptions of Asian bodies in his own way. I believe that from now on he will be able to represent Asian dancers and become well-known.”
Shizuoka Arts Festival, June, 2010, Satoshi Miyagi
Credits
Choreography Shang Chi Sun
Scenic design Anita Fuchs
Light Anja Böhlke
Music Biliana Voutchkova, „including short excerpt from Earl Kim’s 12 caprices for solo violin“
Dramaturgy Gordon Florenkowsky
Play Hanna Binder
Dance Pavel Povraznik, Alexandre Achour
Duration 60 min
Collaboration with
SPAC Shizuoka Arts Festival, Japan 2010
Dock-11
Ernst Busch
The production is made possible by a grant from the Lo Man-fei Dance Fund, Cloud Gate Dance Foundation, Taiwan.
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